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ADN 22B FINAL – ONCOLOGY EXAM 2024/2025
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ADN 22B FINAL – ONCOLOGY EXAM2024/2025
What is the second leading cause of death in the Us? - Precise Answer
✔✔Cancer
What is the primary site of cancer in the US? - Precise Answer ✔✔Lung
What is the most common site of cancer in men? - Precise Answer
✔✔Prostate
What is the most common site of cancer in women? - Precise Answer
✔✔Breast
What is a modifiable risk factor for lung cancer? - Precise Answer
✔✔Smoking
What organs can cancer affect? - Precise Answer ✔✔any organ can be
affected
What is cancer? - Precise Answer ✔✔The disease process begins when
the abnormal cell is transformed by a genetic mutation of cellular DNA
, What are malignant cancer cells? - Precise Answer ✔✔Demonstrate
uncontrolled growth that does not follow physiologic demand
What is Metastasis? - Precise Answer ✔✔Cancer infiltrates other tissue
invasively
What are the three common sites of metastasis? - Precise Answer
✔✔Bone, liver, and lungs
What is cell proliferation of cancer? - Precise Answer ✔✔uncontrolled
growth with the ability to metastasize and destroy tissue and cause death
What are 4 cancer cell characteristics? - Precise Answer ✔✔altered
shape, structure, metabolism, rapid diversion, and increased glucose
uptake
What may develop in tumors? - Precise Answer ✔✔Tumor-specific
antigens
What are two ways a cancer cell can metastasize? - Precise Answer
✔✔lymphatic spread and hematogenous spread
What is hematogenous spread related to? - Precise Answer
✔✔Vascularity of the tumor
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